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"Really? Even if it's the only way anyone's going to get me to let the kid live? Or let you live for that matter. I was told to get more Lanterns. I either turn you both into willing little soldiers..." Thorn said, then smiled and walked towards Cantata. Her colors consumed with fear. "Or you can do as I suggested back home. Then you can live...and so can your friends."

"I'm afraid..." Sandra said softly, "that such a request may be out of the question... Especially if you keep up the sleazeball act."

"You don't want to know," Sandra said curtly, and she folded her arms in front of her generous bust and glared at the Black Lantern.

Sandra's face became stony. "My son could send you to Hell on his own," she said, her tone soft and dangerous. Her green light in Khorne's vision began to have red seep into it.

// The heck with it. I'm just gonna ignore Sandra. I wanna move characters, darn it. //


When the woman did not reply, or even react to his comment towards the witch's son and little girlfriend, Abolisher turned his attention back towards Cantata. She was supposed to be his target anyway...and she was radiating far more emotion than the two other women were. Honestly, how hard would it be? To just walk up to her, then strike out and rip her heart from her body before the others had a chance to react. He'd have a little juice for his ring, Nekron would have another soldier, and he'd have little problem getting to Terragon. Cantata had come to find him and get him to help, right? It shouldn't be hard to just walk right back onto the planet and start stealing life. Starting with Terragon and working his way out.

”Either way...” Abolisher said slowly, turning around to face Cantata again. ”This is waisting time, isn't it?” he said, then started back towards Cantata. ”So what do you say little girl? Are you going to let me have my fun in exchange for Terragon's life?” he said, then stopped directly in front of her. Grinning that awful, sadistic little smile of his. ”Or are you going to run and hide....like you always do? Your parent's aren't here to save you. Terragon's not here to save you. And surprisingly...Zira hasn't dropped by to save your neck again. Are you going to go crawl behind these two, little girl?”

Cantata stared up at him, her eyes wide, and her face a pale shade of lavender. Nearly white with fear. Not that Abolisher needed that to know he was making her want to run away from him. The yellow aura of fear was nearly blinding.

She...she couldn't move. She just couldn't make her legs work. She couldn't even conjure up the energy to say anything back to him. She hadn't felt this afraid of Thorn in years...she...she always had someone to run to. Now...even with the two other women standing near by, she felt utterly alone with him. And just that look on his face...it terrified her. What was she thinking? Looking for Thorn... expecting that SHE would be able to scare HIM into helping Terragon. But she didn't. She couldn't. Terragon was going to die...and she was....Abolisher was going to...she couldn't move. She couldn't move, she couldn't make a sound. She could only stare up at him and think about what all he was going to do to her. And Terragon...he was going to die. It was all her fault, and she couldn't do anything about it. She couldn't even fight if she wanted to. Her blasts rarely hurt Abolisher when he was alive. He wasn't going to feel anything now. But she wanted him to. She wanted...

...she wanted...

Abolisher grin widened, and he very slowly moved his hand. Preparing it to grab what he needed for his ring. But then he stopped. The blinding yellow light radiating off of Cantata began to turn...orange? No...no not orange. Red. A red aura was fiering up in the center of they aura of fear. And the rage was glowing bright enough that it was beginning to overtake the fear completely.

..she wanted...she wanted him to FEEL her hurt him. She wanted to hurt him. She wanted to give back all the pain he'd ever given her, and anyone else she ever cared about. If she could just HURT him...if she could just make him feel the kind of pain she wanted...then it would be worth her failure. She'd feel some bit of vindication.

And then out of the red aura...something else. He couldn't tell what it was, and it was hard for him to look at.

Cantata's expression began to contort into rage, and she balled her shaking fists at her side. Her fingernails glowing a bright, silvery color. ”I don't care...” she began, her voice trembling with repressed rage. ”...if you're dead...”

She wanted to blast him. She wanted it to hurt him. Usually a Creator only had to think of what they wanted, and they could make it. Both her parents were more than qualified for the title of Creator. Surely if she thought “energy that can hurt him”...then she could make it. But he was dead...it probably wouldn't hurt him. She wanted it to HURT. She wanted him to be ALIVE so he could FEEL this. So...as much as she was thinking of an energy that could hurt him...she was wishing that he was alive to feel it.

And with that...the bright light glowing within the aura of rage grew brighter. As did the silver light from her fingertips, and now her eyes.

”I don't care what you do to me...”' she continued. ”But I am NOT going to just stand here and let you get away with whatever the hell you want again. If I can't make you help Terragon...if I can't save him...then I'm at least going to get a shot in for the both of us. And if it kills me...I'm going to make sure....you....feel....every BIT OF IT!” she screamed.

And with that, she shot both of her arms out before Thorn could move his, and dug her fingers into the sides of his head. And then she let loose whatever energy she had managed to conjure up. She concentrated on making every bit of it engulf Thorn. Make it soak into his un-dead body and ball up inside of him. Then explode it. Just let it explode inside of him. That would hurt him. It had to hurt him. It had to. If he were alive it would. She just wanted him to be alive. Alive so he could feel the pain. So he could...

And then he screamed. The bright, silvery light that had poured out of Cantata's hands had completely engulfed Thorn's body, and was radiating outwards. Blinding anyone within a mile of the source of light. The sound of Abolisher screaming in pain was a foreign sound to Cantata...and it didn't register what it was. She thought she was imagining it...but she didn't care. She'd satisfy herself with the idea that...whatever this blast was...was hurting him. Or doing something to cause him pain.

Another thing Cantata didn't notice...was Abolisher's ring melting through his finger from the intense heat. The black ring was now glowing white from the heat the energy was giving off, and was hot enough to sever through his finger and bounce off the ground below them. The ring sizzled and cracked apart as the white-hot energy continued to attack the ring, and Thorn's body.

He... he was alive. It took Cantata a few minutes, as well as Thorn himself, but the realization that he was alive hit hard. And with that thought came a whole 'nother can of emotions. The rage returned, and Cantata found herself filled with a burst of adrenaline and urgency.

The young Creator grit her teeth and snarled as she grabbed Abolisher by his laples and ripped him down to her level. "THERE" she shouted, inches from his face. "NOW what are you going to do when Zira finds you? Are you going to HELP me save Terragon?! Or are you just goin to run and hide until Zira finds you again?! Or maybe I'LL just see what it's like to RIP SOMEONE TO PIECES! And then bring you back and do it all over again!!"

Abolisher just stared at her. He didn't know what to say...he still didn't know how to make sense of what had just happened. And he certainly didn't want to be shredded again.

Cantata glared at him, then yanked him down again so that he had to kneel to her level. "COME ON." she snarled. She glanced down at the still smoking black lantern ring, then stomped her boot onto it HARD. Not enough to break it, but enough to bury it into the ground.

With that, the two were engulfed in a blaze of white light. The next moment, they were gone.

Xavia stared at the spot for a long moment, then blinked. "Huh....well...that was...unexpected." she said, then glanced over at the curvy red-head she was with. "So...you need a ride home or anything?" she asked.



EXIT Cantata & Abolisher to ANACORTIS

Suddenly, there was a bright, blinding flash of green light. A deafening blast of sound followed soon after, knocking anything within a close proximity to the ground. When it cleared, Xavia was gone.

EXIT XAVIA.